The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-08-31

Observers Observations.
Frost bit us here and there little last
Wednesday night.
Clover hullers are running, and the seed is
turning out very well.
The bean gatherers have commenced to
harvest their crops, and the yield is about
one-fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Grout attended the
reunion at Three Rivers last week and report
a fine time.
Mrs. Charley Scott, the pump mans wife,
has gone to Chicago on visit to her sister.
Mrs. Harry L. Howe.
Cyrus Hoke, ex-chief of police of Buck
vile, is about to 90 back to his cousins,
from whence he came.
Mrs. E. l.. Barnard of kalamazoo, was out
on visit last week among her old friends
and had very enjoyable time.
Bobby Huntington, the little duck-legged
steam thresher man, says that wheat aver
ages only about six bushels per acre.
Charley Morrill, is back from Chicago and
at work for A. Grout He likes farming
fully as we'll as the restaurant business.
Joe Sage drives the nobbiest pair of spot
ted mustangs We have seen in many day.
They are dandies, and Joe is Justly proud of
them.
Tomorrow is the first of the month of
oysters, and hunters will have the privilege
of killing some kinds of game without fear
of the law.
Good farmers always have their ground
ready to SOW wheat by the 10th of Septem-
Der. Now let US see how many good farmers
there are in this township.
Ira Flanders has been quite i'll for a few
days past, but is now reported better. His
health has not been good since he went into
the milling business at Mattawan, year or
SO ago.
O. A. Rider of Bangor, took Bell j., record
2:29 and went to Keokuk, Iowa. last week
to knock them out in 2:30 race, and got
shut out in the first heat in 2:35. Bell j. is
half sister to Jim Lane-2:31ai.
Next Monday is pension day, and Ed
Hayes says that after he has drawn his quar-
terly payment, he is going to urge upon con-
gress the propriety of paying off pensions
monthly instead of quarterly, as heretofore.
A family living in the western part of the
township allowed one of their children to get
asleep and lay out all night. Doss says il
wouldn't have happened If the old lady had
called the roll at bed time, as she should have
done.
C. L. Galligans Ben Wilkes is quite a
handy fellow about the barn, as at the head
of his box stall is a pump, and he reaches
through and pumps with his teeth nearly all
the water that four horses consume on the
outside.
Capt. Buck, chief clerk in Galigan's pen
sion and war claim agency, only wrote up
fifteen applications for pensions in one day
last week, and it wasn't an extra day for pen
sion business either. They were from Iowa
Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.
Elder Hoag, our new minister, while out
logging the other day, received quite a severe
injury to one of his legs. caused by log
striking it. The elder apparently believes in
earning bread 10y the sweat of his face, or he
wouldn't have been out there. The leg is
improving.
"Plows are busy again: everybody is going
TO SOW rye and but little wheat" says the
Keller correspondent Yes, whiskey is bound
TO ruin this country if the evil is not stopped
They can SOW many and broad acres OF
whiskey timber, but when il comes to bread
not much interest is taken. God save Keller
Our fair grounds are now in fine shape
and good fair is expected. The track was
never better. buildings and stalls fixed up il
good condition, pumps repaired and in good
order, and everything all q. X. excepting
the speed class, which looks like small boys
work. Now we have a horse that was bred
born and raised in this township, and W,
have been here ourselves thirty-three Ions
years but there is no place FOR our horse
as he is not eligible for the 800. 2:40, or stall
lion classes. However, we see horse tina
has not been here three months that is pro
vided with good large purse, which bear
the ear-marks of fixed job, and should no
be tolerated. Eight hundred dollars i
enough IN speed premiums. as people at sucl
! places as Paw Paw. as a rule. don't trot 70
money, but to beat, and we would divide thi
money up as follows: Green race, 500
three-year-old race, 500; two-forty race
$3.50; two-thirty race, $50; free-for-al
, race, 5000: stallion race. County horses
800. Fifty per cent. to first horse, twenty
l five to second, fifteen to third, and ten q
fourth five to enter and three to start
, Now. We have got six races. the green an,
three-yearold the first day, 2:40 and 2:30 Tia
second day, and the free-for-all and stallion
races the last day, and $500 pays the bill
and there will be some good trotting: as
T is D0,c, you will only get two races, and ma
not that. The way we have il fixed, fror
: SO TO $50 pays entrance in each class an
I it has always been The case here, that we q
more entries on small purses than LARGE